Did Your Party's conference do enough to turn the tide of its disastrous beginnings?

Corbyn and Sultana's new party is likely to benefit from factors for which it can claim no credit.

Your Party’s fortunes improved when the conference began. Pic: Jeremy Corbyn/X

The first time the forerunners of the Labour Party attended an international conference, it was a disaster. Unions and delegates from 15 British socialist groups met in Paris in July 1889 promising to unite the world’s radicals. On the far side of the city, a separate left-win…